I received an e-mail today from Microsoft about their “Get Virtual Now” launch event taking place in Bellevue. That was nothing surprising, but what did catch my eye was this little excerpt:
Microsoft demonstrated for the first time a live migration feature of Windows Server 2008 R2.
This is the first time I’ve heard of live migration being demonstrated with Hyper-V and the first time I’ve seen the feature attached to an actual product release. Now if we could just get a timeframe on the release of Windows Server 2008 R2…
UPDATE: This InfoWorld article seems to imply, mistakenly to my belief, that Hyper-V Server 2008 will include live migration. It’s my understanding that Hyper-V Server 2008 is simply the Microsoft equivalent of ESXi—sporting a greatly stripped-down Windows Server 2008 parent partition and the Hyper-V hypervisor—and will not include live migration. The live migration functionality is slated to be included in Windows Server 2008 R2, due sometime in 2010. If anyone has any information to the contrary, please let me know.
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Monday, September 8, 2008 at 9:07 am
Duncan
2010 is what I’ve heard so far!
Monday, September 8, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Forbes Guthrie
R2 won’t be available until 2010.
Monday, September 8, 2008 at 6:02 pm
VirtualDude
Yeah so that’s 2012 in Microsoft years if they don’t drop the feature before the release :).
Tuesday, September 9, 2008 at 3:01 am
Chris
No matter when it comes, from what I heard in a MS talk Live Migration is by far not what you would expect. They talk about several seconds of VM downtime, seems to be some kind of suspend-move-start.
Saturday, September 13, 2008 at 12:20 am
Rawley
That sounds more like Quick Migration Chris, which is what they currently offer with Hyper-V. It does do a save state-move-start process, and the time required to do so is directly related to the speed of your SAN and VM memory size. Msft likes to say it is a few seconds of downtime but they also don’t seem to use real world memory sizes, most demos I’ve seen has been with 512MB RAM
Friday, September 26, 2008 at 6:47 am
Hyper v Virtualization master
Hi,
a lovely surprise to all of you. Microsoft is preparing their live migration not their quick migration any more. Well If you are not believing this yet then watch the video about hyper-v live migration & the new hyper-v Server Microsoft is preparing at http://www.virtualizationteam.com or a direct link in case the post is pushed down later on at http://www.virtualizationteam.com/microsoft/hyper-v/videos-on-the-new-version-of-hyper-v-and-hyper-v-server.html
I hope that address you concern :). Nice movie watching don’t forget your popcorn
and drop us a comment there on what do u thing.
Enjoy,
Erick
Friday, September 26, 2008 at 7:19 am
slowe
Erick,
That is hardly a surprise to me, although some readers may not have heard the news. Besides, Microsoft has always stated that live migration is something they will add to the product. The latest demonstration, performed at the Microsoft virtualization launch event on 9/8, was part of Windows Server 2008 R2. That version is due to be delivered in 2010. That gives the competition–VMware, Virtual Iron, Novell, Red Hat, and Citrix–another 2 years to innovate and add features. Is Microsoft going to be able to catch up? Or will they always be playing keep up with everyone else? These are valid questions.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Virtualization Master
Hi slowe,
Although Microsoft has an army of developers behind them, Virtualization is not their primary product. I believe they will have quite hard time to catch up.
Enjoy,
Erick